Zoophobia Explained

Zoophobia, or animal phobia, is the irrational fear or aversion towards animals (excluding humans). Zoophobia is the general negative reaction to animals, but it is usually divided into many subgroups, each being of a specific type of zoophobia. Although zoophobia as a whole is quite rare, types of the fear are common.[1] As mentioned before by Sigmund Freud, an animal phobia is one of the most frequent psychoneurotic diseases among children.[2] Zoophobia is almost never towards mammals, but instead towards non-mammalia creatures. A list of common zoophobias is shown below.

!Phobia!Condition
Ailurophobiafear of cats
Arachnophobiafear of arachnids
Batrachophobiafear of amphibians
Chiroptophobiafear of bats
Cynophobiafear of dogs
Entomophobiafear of insects
Equinophobiafear of horses
Ichthyophobiafear of fish
Katsaridaphobiafear of cockroaches
Lepidopterophobiafear of butterflies and/or moths
Melissophobiafear of bees
Molluscophobia fear of snails and slugs
Musophobia fear of mice and rats
Ophidiophobiafear of snakes
Ornithophobiafear of birds
Ostraconophobiafear of shellfish
Pachydermophobiafear of elephants
Ranidaphobiafear of frogs
Scoliodentosaurophobiafear of lizards, geckos
Vermiphobiafear of worms

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Morales-Brown . Peter . 2020-07-27 . Zoophobia: Causes, symptoms, and treatment . 2024-02-21 . www.medicalnewstoday.com . en.
  2. Nandor Fodor, Frank Gaynor, "Freud: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis", 2004: (initial publ. 1950), article "Zoophobia, infantile", pp. 205-206